Denis Diderot Literature Quotations

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

You have to make it happen.